Tree Visualization By One Table (tvBOT): a web application for visualizing, modifying and annotating phylogenetic trees

🤖 Plain-English Summary

tvBOT is a user-friendly and efficient web application for visualizing, modifying, and annotating phylogenetic trees. Besides several publication-ready graphics formats, JSON format can be exported to save the final drawing state and all related data, which can be shared with other users, uploaded to restore the final drawing state for re-editing or used as a style template for quickly retouching a new tree file.

🔑 Key Findings

• It is highly efficient in data preparation without requiring redundant style and syntax data.
• Tree annotations are powered by a data-driven engine that only requires practical data organized in uniform formats and saved as one table file.
• A layer manager is developed to manage annotation dataset layers, allowing the addition of a specific layer by selecting the columns of a corresponding annotation data file.

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